She was equally extolled for her roles in Mozart operas.
Italy was once extolled for its clusters of little firms, but small is no longer beautiful now that competition from low-cost Asian producers has intensified.
In football chatter, it is almost always white quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, of the Patriots, who are extolled for their study habits and on-the-field analysis.
A chaos (hundun) myth is recorded as a metaphor for the undifferentiated primal unity; the mythical emperors (Huangdi and others) are extolled for wise Daoist rule or blamed for introducing harmful civilization.
The story, first told by the medieval historian Henry of Huntingdon, goes like this: King Canute, tired of being extolled for his omnipotence, dragged a throne out to the beach and commanded the tides to turn away.
He was extolled for his groundbreaking palette of lavender-pink and melon-yellow, though the same palette was used in Persian and Indian painting for centuries, as Bonnard was doubtlessly aware.
Just as their way of life is regularly extolled for its humane pace and ability to consume in moderation (mistresses apart), perhaps the French are a little more rounded when it comes to partying, too.
The Cambrian Desert is often extolled for its bleakness, but at a time when austerity, for many people, is more real than aesthetic, its rewilding along the lines Monbiot advocates becomes an attractive proposal, a hopeful metaphor for something over nothing.
The huge crowds at his April 1964 funeral heard him extolled for his military genius and the reforms he instituted in postwar Japan -- not, of course, for his peacock vanity or for the near insubordination that prompted President Harry S. Truman to relieve him in 1951 as commander of United Nations forces in Korea.
Where once [Röyksopp] were extolled for their subtle melodicism, here their schlock candidly attacks the jugular.
